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One Year After the Paris Attacks France Is More Frightened—and Exhausted—Than Ever
The new facade of the Bataclan concert hall, one of the targets of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, on Nov. 6, 2016.
Apaydin Alain—Sipa USA/AP
By Vivienne Walt/Paris
The doorbell rang at 4.30 a.m., politely at first and then more insistently. When Drisia, a French Muslim citizen, finally staggered out of bed and opened the door, she faced 10 armed police officers in riot helmets. They stormed into her apartment in a town in the French Alps, rifling through her drawers while her seven-year-old daughter cowered nearby. Days after that police raid on Dec. 3 last year, her employers fired her—after 10 years of service—from her administrative job with the company that manages the Mont Blanc Tunnel connecting France to Italy, on the suspicion of links with potential Islamist terrorists. "I asked what had happened, but they said the decision was made at a level far above them," Drisia told TIME on Thursday, adding that she was still too shaken to have her full name in print. "There was no explanation," she says. "They marched me out like a suspect."
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Drisia is hardly alone. France has been under a state of emergency since ISIS sympathizers mounted the deadly Paris attacks last November 13, massacring 130 people in the bloodiest terror attack in years. President François Hollande imposed the raft of supposedly temporary security measures within hours of the attacks, while the country was reeling from the bloodbath. The new rules allowed police to raid houses across the country for the first time during nighttime hours, and with little judicial oversight; place suspects under house arrest for months; ban street demonstrations; and monitor millions of people's communications. Since then pieces of these supposedly temporary measures have migrated into French law, including a broad expansion of surveillance powers for police and intelligence agencies. "We are in a changed time, and in many ways, we also have a changed people," French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, the architect and overseer of the new tactics, told local magistrates and police chiefs at a gathering in Paris on November 7.
This Sunday, France marks the first anniversary of the Paris attacks with solemn ceremonies to honor the dead and finally move beyond grief and unease. And yet, one year on, it is far from clear whether the government's anti-terrorism strategy is working. In interviews with regular French people over the months, almost all say they are resigned to the fact that another terror attack is inevitable, somewhere, sometime. Desperate to avoid a repeat of the Paris massacre, the government has reassured few people that they are capable of averting assaults especially from lone-wolf attackers—and indeed some believe its anti-terrorism campaign might even have inflamed the situation.
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In a report released last week, the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights, or FIDH, says France's anti-terror tactics have been "a serious setback to the rule of law," but asserts that the country is no safer from jihadist attacks. Describing dozens of police raids on seemingly innocent people, the report notes, "There is little evidence that this approach is working and it comes at a cost to fundamental rights."
Lawyers tackling cases under the state of emergency say police have largely targeted Muslims who look conservative—men with long beards or women in long dresses and headscarfs. Many, they say, are regarded in the streets and at work as potential jihadists—a feeling they believe the state of emergency has only helped to cement. "The government created a theory that when you are becoming more and more religious, in an orthodox way, you can become a terrorist, or make an allegiance to terrorism," says Arié Alimi, a Paris lawyer, who is suing the government in about 15 different cases of wrongful arrest or police abuse under the state of emergency. "These people have nothing to do with terrorism," says Alimi, himself an observant Jew. "They are just Muslims."
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Indeed, the state of emergency has targeted almost entirely the 5 million or so French Muslims—the biggest Muslim population in Europe. That is hardly surprising, since the jihadist attackers have all been Muslim, and have acted in the name of aAl-Qaeda or ISIS. "There is this kind of witch hunt where you are looking for anybody related to conservative Muslim movements," says Marwan Mohammad, executive director of the French Collective against Islamophobia, or CCIF. He his group has received 320 reports of police abuse since the Paris attacks. "The vast majority involved are innocent families with no reason to suspect them."
Alimi says several of the clients suing for police abuses or wrongful arrests under the state of emergency are French converts to Islam. Those converts are frequently more religious than Muslim-born French people. The converts Alimi represents include Willy Benali, a 30-year-old , a sniper for the French military who has fought in Gabon, Central African Republic and Kosovo, and whom police raided shortly after the Paris attacks. Another is a man in the Val D d'Oise region northwest of Paris, who runs an import-export business, and who did not want to be named in print; he too is a convert to Islam, whose Jewish grandparents were killed in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. Shortly after the Paris attacks local authorities, and placed him under house arrest for four months, eventually clearing him after Alimi sued the government. In the court findings, the magistrate describes what led authorities to suspect the businessman, saying that ISIS has instructed French Muslims to adopt "techniques of dissimulation," in order to hide their jihadist allegiances. "When you read the conclusions of the administrators, there are very racist, disciminatory remarks," Alimi says.
Photographing the Aftermath of Paris' Terror Attacks
A victim under a blanket lays dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. Well over 100 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions explosions. French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country's borders.
Jerome Delay—AP
Victims walk away outside the Bataclan theater in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015.
A man looks out the bullet ridden windows of the Carillon cafe in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
Dried blood on the window of the Carillon cafe in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
A woman is comforted by others outside the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
Bloodstained footsteps are visible on the street linking the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
People line up to give blood at the St Louis hospital across the street from the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
People react in front of the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris Saturday Nov. 14, 2015.
A police officer patrols outside the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
A woman carrying flowers cries in front of the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
People react in front of the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
A man places a candle in front of the Carillon cafe in Paris on Nov. 14, 2015.
Cards, candles and flowers are placed in front of the Carillon cafe in Paris on Saturday Nov. 14, 2015.
At the heart of these accusations are the police themselves—and they aren't happy either. Heavily criticized for failing to stop a series of terror attacks, they are on a constant lookout for the next eruption of jihadist violence—a terrifying prospect that is always in the back of many French people's minds. "We have the means now, but it is not sure that they won't be further attacks," says Christophe Crépin, spokesman for the national police trade union, UNSA. "There is a savagery that is very, very strong now."
Crépin says police feel deeply rattled, even burned out, in the face of a cryptic and nimble enemy that has outmaneuvered them. "The state of emergency has helped us in terms of raids," he says. "But it mobilizes a lot of police. And if you never have a vacation, and you are always under stress, you cannot function."
The limitations of the police tactics were starkly clear last July 14—Bastille Day. That day President François Hollande trumpeted his anti-terrorism success in a televised holiday address and said he would soon end the state of emergency. Hours later, however, a Tunisian immigrant delivery man, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, rammed a giant truck into a holiday crowd on the Nice promenade, killing 87 people—France's second-biggest terror attack, after Paris.
After the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January 2015, which killed 17 people in separate incidents over a few days, the Nice attack was the third jihadist assault in 18 months. Worse, it appeared to emerge from nowhere. Despite months of police raids, intelligence monitoring, and hundreds of arrests, Bouhlel, 31, had no police record and no known jihadist connections or sympathies. While ISIS claimed him as its "soldier," that was news to the police, and his friends. "He didn't do Ramadan, he didn't pray," one acquaintance told TIME in Nice. Within hours of the Nice massacre, Hollande immediately reversed himself, reimposing the emergency measures; days later, the French parliament made some of those measures law.
Now it is left to lawyers like Alimi to sort out the consequences—and to those targeted to prove their innocence. Drisia, the woman fired from her job at the Mont Blanc Tunnel in the French Alps, has yet to find new employment. With the help of the organization CCIF, she won a six-figure compensation package in court from the company—the exact figure remains secret under the settlement—and a small sum from the regional authorities. While that has helped, she says she has struggled to find new work, especially since local newspapers widely publicized her firing, saying she was "on the path to radicalization." Drisia, who is a single mother of a girl recovering from a brain tumor, believes police targeted her as a suspected jihadist, because "I was someone who adhered to religion even though my daughter had cancer," she says. "It has affected me a lot. This has been a very difficult year."
For France, there are likely to be more tough times to come.


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Netanyahu again goes after Barak for ties to accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein
PM highlights payment to political rival from Wexner Foundation, linked to US tycoon who allegedly sex trafficked minors
By TOI staff and Agencies	9 July 2019, 12:45 pm 1 Edit
Jeffrey Epstein, center, is shown in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 30, 2008 (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)
The political jousting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival former premier Ehud Barak ramped up Tuesday when the premier published a video on social media again questioning the latter's relationship with US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sex-trafficking in minors.
The video was published under the headline "What else has sex offender Epstein given to Barak?"
According to Netanyahu's video, Epstein manages the Wexner Foundation. Forbes says he serves as a trustee, and a spokesperson for the institution told the financial news outlet that Les Wexner, founder of the organization, severed ties with Epstein over a decade ago.
The video states that Barak received a payment of $2.3 million from the foundation and has refused to answer questions on the matter.
In an interview with 103FM radio on Tuesday, Barak refused to fully address the question of a large payment he received from the Wexner Foundation, the family foundation of Epstein's mentor Wexner, who is the founder and chairman of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria's Secret.
Former prime minister Ehud Barak announces the formation of a new party at Tel Aviv's Beit Sokolov on June 26, 2019. (Flash90)
"I provide consulting and research services and people pay me a lot of money for it. Like a lawyer and accountant, as a service provider, I do not have to say what," said Barak.
When asked directly what he did for the payment of NIS 10 million (approximately $2.3 million at the time), Barak responded: "Ask the Wexner Foundation."
Earlier on Sunday, Barak published a campaign video highlighting accusations the prime minister had received €1 million in campaign funding from an associate, accused French fraudster Arnaud Mimran.
Epstein is a wealthy hedge fund manager who counted among his friends former US president Bill Clinton, Great Britain's Prince Andrew and US President Donald Trump, a close ally of Netanyahu.
Retail mogul Leslie Wexner, right, and his wife Abigail tour the 'Transfigurations' exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts, September 19, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Epstein was taken into federal custody Saturday and charged with sexually exploiting dozens of young girls.
In an indictment unsealed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, he was charged Monday with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.
Epstein appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday and pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry a maximum of 45 years in prison.
A US officials said Epstein is accused of paying underage girls for massages and molesting them at his homes in Florida and New York in the early 2000s.
In 2008, Epstein was sentenced to 13 months in jail after pleading guilty in a plea deal to lesser charges of soliciting and procuring a person under age 18 for prostitution, averting a possible life sentence. He has since been a registered sex offender.
In 2016, eight years after Epstein pleaded guilty to the charges, Barak was seen outside his New York home in photos published by the Daily Mail. The captions of the photos did not identify Barak by name, but said he had arrived at the New York residence with his own security detail.
Netanyahu's Likud party repeatedly claimed Sunday that Barak attended a party hosted by Epstein in 2016.
On Sunday morning, Netanyahu tweeted a screenshot of a Hebrew-language report about Epstein's arrest and his ties to Barak.
The report on the obscure News1 website claimed that Epstein had been a trustee of the Wexner Foundation when it handed Barak $1 million in 2004.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on July 7, 2019. (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)
Barak, who was prime minister in 1999-2001 and retired from politics in 2013, last week announced his return to the political arena at the head of the new Israel Democratic Party, vowing to defeat Netanyahu in September.
Barak responded to Likud's attacks on Sunday with a jab at Netanyahu, who is himself embroiled in several criminal cases and faces corruption charges in three probes, pending a hearing.
"It pains me to hear that people I know get in trouble and face criminal charges. First Netanyahu, now Epstein," he tweeted. "I wish both of them that the truth will come out."
In an interview with 103FM radio on Sunday, Barak denied attending Epstein's party and said he wasn't the only one on friendly terms with the tycoon.
"Donald Trump and Bill Clinton also knew Epstein," he noted, adding that the person who had introduced him to Epstein was the late former president Shimon Peres, a widely revered figure in Israeli politics.
Epstein's arrest comes amid renewed scrutiny of the once-secret plea deal that ended a federal investigation against him.
According to court records in Florida from the 2008 case, authorities say at least 40 underage girls were brought into Epstein's Palm Beach mansion for what turned into sexual encounters, after female fixers looked for suitable girls locally and in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world.
Some girls were also allegedly brought to Epstein's homes in New York City, New Mexico and a private Caribbean island, according to court documents.
Saturday's arrest came just days after a federal appeals court in New York ordered the unsealing of nearly 2,000 pages of records in a since-settled defamation case involving Epstein.
Michael Bachner contributed to this report.

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% OCI(1) OCI-RUNTIME-TOOL User Manuals
% OCI Community
% APRIL 2016
# NAME
oci-runtime-tool-generate - Generate a config.json for an OCI container

# SYNOPSIS
**oci-runtime-tool generate** *[OPTIONS]*

# DESCRIPTION

`oci-runtime-tool generate` generates configuration JSON for an OCI bundle.
By default, it writes the JSON to stdout, but you can use **--output**
to direct it to a file.  OCI-compatible runtimes like runC expect to
read the configuration from `config.json`.

# OPTIONS
**--apparmor**=PROFILE
  Specifies the apparmor profile for the container

**--arch**=ARCH
  Architecture used within the container.
  "amd64"

**--args**=OPTION
  Arguments to run within the container.  Can be specified multiple times.
  If you were going to run a command with multiple options, you would need
  to specify the command and each argument in order.

  --args "/usr/bin/httpd" --args "-D" --args "FOREGROUND"

**--bind**=*[[HOST-DIR:CONTAINER-DIR][:OPTIONS...]]*
  Bind mount directories src:dest:(rw,ro) If you specify, ` --bind
  /HOST-DIR:/CONTAINER-DIR`, runc bind mounts `/HOST-DIR` in the host
  to `/CONTAINER-DIR` in the OCI container. The `OPTIONS` are a colon
  delimited list and can be any mount option support by the runtime such
  as [rw|ro|rbind|bind|...]. The `HOST_DIR` and `CONTAINER-DIR` must be
  absolute paths such as `/src/docs`.  You can set the `ro` or `rw`
  options to a bind-mount to mount it read-only or read-write mode,
  respectively. By default, bind-mounts are mounted read-write.

**--cap-add**=[]
  Add Linux capabilities

**--cap-drop**=[]
  Drop Linux capabilities

**--cgroups-path**=""
  Specifies the path to the cgroups relative to the cgroups mount point.

**--cwd**=PATH
  Current working directory for the process. The deafult is */*.

**--device-add**=*TYPE:MAJOR:MINOR:PATH[:OPTIONS...]*
  Add a device file in container. e.g. --device=c:10:229:/dev/fuse:fileMode=438:uid=0:gid=0
  The *TYPE*, *MAJOR*, *MINOR*, *PATH* are required.
    *TYPE* is the device type. The acceptable values are b (block), c (character), u (unbuffered), p (FIFO).
    *MAJOR*/*MINOR* is the major/minor device id.
    *PATH* is the device path.
  The *fileMode*, *uid*, *gid* are optional.
    *fileMode* is the file mode of the device file.
    *uid*/*gid* is the user/group id of the device file.
  This option can be specified multiple times.

**--device-remove**=*PATH*
  Remove a device file in container.
  This option can be specified multiple times.

**--device-remove-all**=true|false
  Remove all devices for linux inside the container. The default is *false*.

**--disable-oom-kill**=true|false
  Whether to disable OOM Killer for the container or not.

**--env**=[]
  Set environment variables e.g. key=value.
  This option allows you to specify arbitrary environment variables
  that are available for the process that will be launched inside of
  the container.

**--env-file**=[]
  Set environment variables from a file.
  This option sets environment variables in the container from the
  contents of a file formatted with key=value pairs, one per line.
  When specified multiple times, files are loaded in order with duplicate
  keys overwriting previous ones.

**--gid**=GID
  Gid for the process inside of container

**--gidmappings**=GIDMAPPINGS
  Add GIDMappings e.g HostID:ContainerID:Size.  Implies **-user=**.

**--groups**=GROUP
  Supplementary groups for the processes inside of container

**--help**
  Print usage statement

**--hostname**=""
  Set the container host name that is available inside the container.

**--label**=[]
  Add annotations to the configuration e.g. key=value.
  Currently, key containing equals sign is not supported.

**--linux-cpu-shares**=CPUSHARES
  Specifies a relative share of CPU time available to the tasks in a cgroup.

**--linux-cpu-period**=CPUPERIOD
  Specifies a period of time in microseconds for how regularly a cgroup's access to CPU resources should be reallocated (CFS scheduler only).

**--linux-cpu-quota**=CPUQUOTA
  Specifies the total amount of time in microseconds for which all tasks in a cgroup can run during one period.

**--linux-cpus**=CPUS
  Sets the CPUs to use within the cpuset (default is to use any CPU available).

**--linux-mem-kernel-limit**=MEMKERNELLIMIT
  Sets the hard limit of kernel memory in bytes.

**--linux-mem-kernel-tcp**=MEMKERNELTCP
  Sets the hard limit of kernel TCP buffer memory in bytes.

**--linux-mem-limit**=MEMLIMIT
  Sets the limit of memory usage in bytes.

**--linux-mem-reservation**=MEMRESERVATION
  Sets the soft limit of memory usage in bytes.

**--linux-mem-swap**=MEMSWAP
  Sets the total memory limit (memory + swap) in bytes.

**--linux-mem-swappiness**=MEMSWAPPINESS
  Sets the swappiness of how the kernel will swap memory pages (Range from 0 to 100).

**--linux-mems**=MEMS
  Sets the list of memory nodes in the cpuset (default is to use any available memory node).

**--linux-namespace-add**=NSNAME[:PATH]
  Adds or replaces the given linux namespace NSNAME with a namespace entry that
  has a path of PATH. Omitting PATH means that a new namespace will be created
  by the container.

**--linux-namespace-remove**=NSNAME
  Removes a namespace from the set of namespaces configured in the container,
  so that the host's namespace will be used by the container instead of
  creating or joining another namespace.

**--linux-namespace-remove-all**
  Removes all namespaces from the set of namespaces configured for a container,
  such that the container will effectively run on the host.

**--linux-network-classid**=CLASSID
  Specifies network class identifier which will be tagged by container's network packets.

**--linux-network-priorities**=[]
  Specifies network priorities of network traffic, format is NAME:PRIORITY.
  e.g. --linux-network-priorities=eth0:123
  This option can be specified multiple times. If a interface name was specified more than once, the last PRIORITY makes sense.
  The special *PRIORITY*  -1  removes existing setting for interface NAME.

**--linux-pids-limit**=PIDSLIMIT
  Set maximum number of PIDs.

**--linux-realtime-period**=REALTIMEPERIOD
  Sets the CPU period to be used for realtime scheduling (in usecs). Same as **--linux-cpu-period** but applies to realtime scheduler only.

**--linux-realtime-runtime**=REALTIMERUNTIME
  Specifies a period of time in microseconds for the longest continuous period in which the tasks in a cgroup have access to CPU resources.

**--masked-paths**=[]
  Specifies paths can not be read inside container. e.g. --masked-paths=/proc/kcore
  This option can be specified multiple times.

**--mount-cgroups**=[rw|ro|no]
  Mount cgroups. The default is *no*.

**--mount-label**=MOUNTLABEL
  Mount Label
  Depending on your SELinux policy, you would specify a label that looks like
  this:
  "system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c1,c2"

    Note you would want your ROOTFS directory to be labeled with a context that
    this process type can use.

      "system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0" might be a good label for a readonly container,
      "system_u:system_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c1,c2" for a read/write container.

**--no-new-privileges**=true|false
  Set no new privileges bit for the container process.  Setting this flag
  will block the container processes from gaining any additional privileges
  using tools like setuid apps.  It is a good idea to run unprivileged
  containers with this flag.

**--oom-score-adj**=adj
  Specifies oom_score_adj for the container.

**--os**=OS
  Operating system used within the container.

**--output**=PATH
  Instead of writing the configuration JSON to stdout, write it to a
  file at *PATH* (overwriting the existing content if a file already
  exists at *PATH*).

**--poststart**=CMD[:ARGS...]
  Set command to run in poststart hooks. Can be specified multiple times.
  The multiple commands will be run in order before the container process
  gets launched but after the container environment and main process has been
  created.

**--poststop**=CMD[:ARGS...]
  Set command to run in poststop hooks. Can be specified multiple times.
  The multiple commands will be run in order after the container process
  is stopped.

**--prestart**=CMD[:ARGS...]
  Set command to run in prestart hooks. Can be specified multiple times.
  The multiple commands will be run in order after the container process
  has been created but before it executes the user-configured code.

**--privileged**=true|false
  Give extended privileges to this container. The default is *false*.

  By default, OCI containers are
"unprivileged" (=false) and cannot do some of the things a normal root process can do.

  When the operator executes **oci-runtime-tool generate --privileged**, OCI will enable access to all devices on the host as well as disable some of the confinement mechanisms like AppArmor, SELinux, and seccomp from blocking access to privileged processes.  This gives the container processes nearly all the same access to the host as processes generating outside of a container on the host.

**--readonly-paths**=[]
  Specifies paths readonly inside container. e.g. --readonly-paths=/proc/sys
  This option can be specified multiple times.

**--rootfs-path**=ROOTFSPATH
  Path to the rootfs, which can be an absolute path or relative to bundle path.
  e.g the absolute path of rootfs is /to/bundle/rootfs, bundle path is /to/bundle,
  then the value set as ROOTFSPATH should be `/to/bundle/rootfs` or `rootfs`. The default is *rootfs*.

**--rootfs-propagation**=PROPOGATIONMODE
  Mount propagation for root filesystem.
  Values are "shared, rshared, private, rprivate, slave, rslave"

**--rootfs-readonly**=true|false
  Mount the container's root filesystem as read only.

  By default a container will have its root filesystem writable allowing processes to write files anywhere.  By specifying the `--rootfs-readonly` flag the container will have its root filesystem mounted as read only prohibiting any writes.

**--rlimits-add**=[]
  Specifies resource limits, format is RLIMIT:HARD:SOFT. e.g. --rlimits-add=RLIMIT_NOFILE:1024:1024
  This option can be specified multiple times. When same RLIMIT specified over once, the last one make sense.

**--rlimits-remove**=[]
  Remove the specified resource limits for process inside the container.
  This option can be specified multiple times.

**--rlimits-remove-all**=true|false
  Remove all resource limits for process inside the container. The default is *false*.

**--seccomp-allow**=SYSCALL
  Specifies syscalls to be added to the ALLOW list.
  See --seccomp-syscalls for setting limits on arguments.

**--seccomp-arch**=ARCH
  Specifies Additional architectures permitted to be used for system calls.
  By default if you turn on seccomp, only the host architecture will be allowed.

**--seccomp-default**=ACTION
  Specifies the the default action of Seccomp syscall restrictions and removes existing restrictions with the specified action
  Values: KILL,ERRNO,TRACE,ALLOW

**--seccomp-default-force**=ACTION
  Specifies the the default action of Seccomp syscall restrictions
  Values: KILL,ERRNO,TRACE,ALLOW

**--seccomp-errno**=SYSCALL
  Specifies syscalls to create seccomp rule to respond with ERRNO.

**--seccomp-kill**=SYSCALL
  Specifies syscalls to create seccomp rule to respond with KILL.

**--seccomp-only**
  Option to only export the seccomp section of output

**--seccomp-remove**
  Specifies syscall restrictions to remove from the configuration.

**--seccomp-remove-all**
  Option to remove all syscall restrictions.

**--seccomp-trace**=SYSCALL
  Specifies syscalls to create seccomp rule to respond with TRACE.

**--seccomp-trap**=SYSCALL
  Specifies syscalls to create seccomp rule to respond with TRAP.

**--selinux-label**=PROCESSLABEL
  SELinux Label
  Depending on your SELinux policy, you would specify a label that looks like
  this:
  "system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c1,c2"

    Note you would want your ROOTFS directory to be labeled with a context that
    this process type can use.

      "system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0" might be a good label for a readonly container,
      "system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c1,c2" for a read/write container.

**--sysctl**=SYSCTLSETTING
  Add sysctl settings e.g net.ipv4.forward=1, only allowed if the syctl is
  namespaced.

**--template**=PATH
  Override the default template with your own.
  Additional options will only adjust the relevant portions of your template.

**--tmpfs**=[] Create a tmpfs mount
  Mount a temporary filesystem (`tmpfs`) mount into a container, for example:

    $ oci-runtime-tool generate -d --tmpfs /tmp:rw,size=787448k,mode=1777 my_image

    This command mounts a `tmpfs` at `/tmp` within the container.  The supported mount options are the same as the Linux default `mount` flags. If you do not specify any options, the systems uses the following options:
    `rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=65536k`.

**--tty**=true|false
  Allocate a new tty for the container process. The default is *false*.

**--uid**=UID
  Sets the UID used within the container.

**--uidmappings**
  Add UIDMappings e.g HostUID:ContainerID:Size.  Implies **--user=**.

# EXAMPLES

## Generating container in read-only mode

During container image development, containers often need to write to the image
content.  Installing packages into /usr, for example.  In production,
applications seldom need to write to the image.  Container applications write
to volumes if they need to write to file systems at all.  Applications can be
made more secure by generating them in read-only mode using the --rootfs-readonly switch.
This protects the containers image from modification. Read only containers may
still need to write temporary data.  The best way to handle this is to mount
tmpfs directories on /generate and /tmp.

    $ oci-runtime-tool generate --rootfs-readonly --tmpfs /generate --tmpfs /tmp --tmpfs /run  --rootfs-path /var/lib/containers/fedora --args bash

## Exposing log messages from the container to the host's log

If you want messages that are logged in your container to show up in the host's
syslog/journal then you should bind mount the /dev/log directory as follows.

    $ oci-runtime-tool generate --bind /dev/log:/dev/log  --rootfs-path /var/lib/containers/fedora --args bash

From inside the container you can test this by sending a message to the log.

    (bash)# logger "Hello from my container"

Then exit and check the journal.

    # exit

    # journalctl -b | grep Hello

This should list the message sent to logger.

## Bind Mounting External Volumes

To mount a host directory as a container volume, specify the absolute path to
the directory and the absolute path for the container directory separated by a
colon:

    $ oci-runtime-tool generate --bind /var/db:/data1  --rootfs-path /var/lib/containers/fedora --args bash

## Using SELinux

You can use SELinux to add security to the container.  You must specify the process label to run the init process inside of the container using the --selinux-label.

    $ oci-runtime-tool generate --bind /var/db:/data1  --selinux-label system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c1,c2 --mount-label system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c1,c2 --rootfs-path /var/lib/containers/fedora --args bash

Not in the above example we used a type of svirt_lxc_net_t and an MCS Label of s0:c1,c2.  If you want to guarantee separation between containers, you need to make sure that each container gets launched with a different MCS Label pair.

Also the underlying rootfs must be labeled with a matching label.  For the example above, you would execute a command like:

    # chcon -R system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c1,c2  /var/lib/containers/fedora

This will set up the labeling of the rootfs so that the process launched would be able to write to the container.  If you wanted to only allow it to read/execute the content in rootfs, you could execute:

    # chcon -R system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0  /var/lib/containers/fedora

When using SELinux, be aware that the host has no knowledge of container SELinux
policy. Therefore, in the above example, if SELinux policy is enforced, the
`/var/db` directory is not writable to the container. A "Permission Denied"
message will occur and an avc: message in the host's syslog.

To work around this, the following command needs to be generate in order for the proper SELinux policy type label to be attached to the host directory:

    # chcon -Rt svirt_sandbox_file_t -l s0:c1,c2 /var/db

Now, writing to the /data1 volume in the container will be allowed and the
changes will also be reflected on the host in /var/db.

# SEE ALSO
**runc**(1), **oci-runtime-tool**(1)

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"The trial court clearly exceeded its authority in sua sponte suspending the mother's parenting time when the issue before the court was child support," Firlit's attorney told Fox News in a statement. "The father did not bring this issue before the court. The mother did not know her parenting time was being discussed when she went to zoom court on August [10]. The judge deprived her of notice and a full hearing on the issue. The issue is now before the Illinois appellate court."
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One of the things he pointed out, then explained further in a comment after I didn't understand, was how the GOSUB processing works. After the GOSUB keyword is found, BASIC acquires the line number and then scans to the end of the line or the next colon. That is where RETURN will RETURN to. This sounds as one might expect, but there was a bit of weirdness I didn't "get" at first.
GOSUB 1000 I CAN TYPE STUFF HERE WITHOUT ERROR:PRINT "BACK FROM GOSUB"
…when the RETURN returns, you will see the "BACK FROM GOSUB" message printed as expected. Anything between the line number and the colon (or start of next line, whichever is found first) is ignored. William explains what is going on in his article.
Now for the stupid test, I added some junk after "GOSUB 100" and filled it up to the end of the line.
Side Note: I am loading BASIC programs in ASCII, so the program lines load in as if they were being typed in. Thus, it counts the characters "100 GOSUB " as part of it. But, as soon as you press ENTER, that line is tokenized and GOSUB becomes a 1-byte token (is it 1-byte?). Then you can EDIT the line and Xtend it and type in a few more characters. So what I show here isn't the max line size, but it is the max line size I could load in from an ASCII BASIC file. But I digress.
Now when I run this, the extra "scan to the end" time causes the benchmark to show 1507!
This benchmark shows 1508, so no real difference. When GOSUB is encountered, BASIC has to scan to the end of line or a colon, whichever comes first, so it should find the colon instantly, BUT, after the RETURN it still has to scan through that REM to find the next line. Thus, it's the same amount of scanning.
This is a meaningless test.
30 GOSUB 100:PRINT "BACK FROM ROUTINE"
40 PRINT "BACK FROM ROUTINE"
I thought the first one should be faster, since it has one less line.
And combining lines is good.
That's basically the same, just with an extra line number.
When I run this, I get a benchmark value of … 860!
What's going on here? The key seems to be the "REM" keyword. When BASIC encounters a REM, it can just skip to the next line. That makes it faster. But, it seems to be doing something different when a REM is in the middle of a line.
It appears it is faster to NOT put REMarks after a GOSUB.
…which shows 220. And I've certainly seen programmers make use of the apostrophe REMark shortcut.
REM versus ' for comments.
That is backwards. But it produces 220, so it doesn't penalize you for being backwards.
It may look smaller, but the first example is like scanning ":REM MOVE UP" and the second is just "REM MOVE UP" so it has less work to do.
I guess it's just treating the apostrophe as ":REM" internally, or maybe it's a 2-byte token for ":REM" versus a different 1-byte token just for "REM" or something. Dunno.
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GOSUB and GOTO are both "two byte" tokens. Actually, "GO" is one token and then TO/SUB are separate tokens. I think this is a throwback to the original Basic which actually specified GOTO as "GO TO" (two words). By separating it into two tokens, it allows the two word variant for free due to the "skipping spaces" effect of the "next character" routine.
On the REM vs ' business: ' does have its own distinct single byte token. The tokenization process adds a : before it during tokenization behind the scenes which is why you don't need a : before ' but you do before REM. Otherwise it is treated exactly the same as REM during interpretation so :REM and ' execute at the same speed. You can see this detail by examining the tokenized basic program. Thus, if your comment is at the start of the line, you're better off using REM and if it's at the end of the line, it makes no difference.
As a bit of trivia, the tokenizer also adds a colon before ELSE which is almost certainly done as an optimization so the execution process doesn't have to look for "ELSE" as yet another "end of statement" indicator.
Even more trivial: you can replace "THEN" with "GOTO" or "GOSUB" directly. There's no benefit to doing that for GOTO, but it saves a byte with GOSUB.
So in the token, a : is stored before the ' token? Does this mean the detokenizer that is used for LIST has code to not print the :'s it finds before ELSE and '?
THEN GOTO can be replaced by either GOTO or THEN saving either 1 or two bytes. THEN GOSUB can only be replaced by GOSUB resulting in a 1 byte saving. The CRUNCH program replaces THEN GOTO with THEN, and THEN GOSUB with GOSUB. (It doesn't replace either if there is a space between THEN and either GOTO or GOSUB.) *Note* GOTO can be expressed as GO TO and GOSUB can be expressed as GO SUB.


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Q: java deprecation I am going to deprecate a class in java.
@Deprecated
class deprecatedClass

and I have list of this deprecated class, so going to add @Deprecated tag here too.
@Deprecated
List<deprecatedClass> listOfDeperecatedClass

and I have a method called
private populateListOfDeperecatedClass

This is a private method.  So do I need to add @Deprecated tag for this method too?

A: check the JLS for a little more insight on deprecated

A: There is no point marking private method @Deprecated. This is information for user of your class, if this method is private and not mentioned to be used just don't use it.

A: Yes, if the class containing the method is not deprecated. All the private modifier means is that the method cannot be called from outside the class. If you do not mark it as deprecated, it can still be called from within the class without informing the user that it is deprecated.

A: There is little point in marking a private method as deprecated.  It can ... by definition ... only be used by the current class.  Either replace / remove it immediately, or leave it as is.
Deprecation is primarily designed to flag problematic or outdated dependencies between different class.
Having said that, it is legal to deprecate a private method ... if you think it will help.

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Sporting KC Vs. New York Red Bulls: Game Preview
The New York Red Bulls visit Sporting KC on Sunday night in a meeting of the first and second place teams in the MLS Eastern Conference Table.
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The New York Red Bulls pay a visit to Sporting KC this Sunday, Aug. 26, in a showdown between the first and second place teams in the MLS Eastern Conference Table.
Sporting KC, at 46 points, has a narrow two point advantage over New York heading into Sunday's contest, and are enjoying a three-match winning streak.
Last Saturday, Aug. 18, they went on the road and defeated Toronto FC, 1-0, on Kei Kamara's goal in the 83rd minute. It was the forward's team-leading ninth goal of the season.
The Red Bulls are enjoying a two-match winning streak of their own, defending home turf with victories over the Houston Dynamo on Friday, Aug. 10, and Portland Timbers last Sunday, Aug. 19.
The win over the Timbers came after falling behind 2-0 in the first half. Kenny Cooper, Tim Cahill and Heath Pearce all notched goals in the comeback.
The match is scheduled to start at 8 pm CT on Sunday.
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Orioles grant Michael Bourn's request for release; Chris Johnson also released
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Outfielder Michael Bourn, who was in camp with the Orioles for less than a week before breaking his finger and spending the spring on the sideline, requested and was granted his release Monday.
Bourn, who had an opt-out in his contract, said Saturday that he needed to spend two more weeks in a splint that immobilizes his finger, meaning a late-April return was probably the most optimistic outlook.
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He had a $2 million base salary if he made the club on Opening Day, and if the Orioles added him to the roster and put him on the disabled list, they would have been on the hook for that money.
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Infielder Chris Johnson, whose father Ron is the manager at the Orioles' Triple-A affiliate in Norfolk, was also released Monday, the team announced.
Johnson's 67 at-bats were the most of anyone in Orioles camp, and he hit .269/310/.493 with three home runs and 11 RBIs in 24 games.
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UPDATE: The Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources has awarded a 15-year contract to the telecoms consortium E-Net to manage the 26 metropolitan area networks (MANs) being rolled out under the Government's e-commerce initiative under the National Development Plan.
Limerick-based E-Net will act as the managed services entity for the €65m Government-funded broadband networks that have been installed in 19 towns around the country to date, with more towns to follow next year.
The networks cover the main cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Kilkenny as well as Wexford, Dungarvan, Portlaoise, Mullingar, Athlone, Letterkenny, Carrick-on-Shannon, Manorhamilton, Sligo, Dundalk, Drogheda, Monaghan, Cavan, Kingscourt and Carrickmacross.
E-Net will operate as an independent wholesaler, offering access to the MANs to a range of telecoms operators such as Esat BT, Aurora, Chorus, ESB Telecom and Eircom. E-Net will promote, manage and market the network infrastructure, offering a full suite of technical services to operators including ducting, sub-ducting, dark fibre, high-level managed capacity, colocation facilities and auxiliary services.
It is claimed that the pricing achieved in the contract is on a par with competitive pricing internationally. The Government also anticipates that the presence of high-speed networks at attractive prices will be a key driver of economic development in the regions.
At the launch Communications Minister Dermot Ahern TD called the deal "a unique public private partnership between government and the private sector". The State had installed the infrastructure and the new entity would operate it and market its services, he said.
"It will offer more accessibility to the internet, with more choice and more competition," Ahern declared. "We are pushing the network to areas where perhaps the commercial companies will not go, preventing a digital divide from developing."
The minister added that Ireland was not alone in taking this approach to addressing the broadband access deficit that had built up in the country. "There's been a rise in broadband take-up in France but even it had to go to the EU for approval for state aid to the regions because it wasn't being provided by private companies in the open market," he said.
"What we're doing here will replicate what was done in Sweden where there are significant broadband speeds available in all areas of the country," he continued.
The operation of the broadband networks should result in prices to the consumer that are orders of magnitude cheaper than costly leased lines and faster than technologies such as DSL, E-Net representatives said. The company, which was formed especially to bid for the contract to run the MANs, said it had good relationships with all of the telecoms carriers in Ireland and said it would operate in a "totally neutral and transparent way".
E-Net and the Government will operate a revenue-sharing arrangement, which will see the Exchecquer receive a return on the investment in the MANs from the income generated by the project.
E-Net is headed by Michael Tiernan of Tiernan Properties and the company is backed by a €12m fund raised by a combination of ACT Venture Capital, Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland and private equity.
The company is chaired by non-executive director Eoin O'Driscoll, formerly of Lucent Technologies and currently chairman of the Enterprise Strategy Group. Speaking to siliconrepublic.com, O'Driscoll said that the organisation had built up a team with expertise in all of the necessary areas. "It has a strong regional dimension, a large infrastructural project dimension and a telecoms dimension," he pointed out. The company's chief operations officer is George McGrath, who formerly headed Ocean, the telecoms joint venture between the ESB and BT.
Kevin Thompstone, chairman of Shannon Broadband and chief executive of Shannon Development, hailed the awarding of the management contract to a firm based in the mid-west region. "A key objective of Shannon Broadband has been provision of regional broadband services at reasonable prices. We are confident that the awarding of this important contract to a regionally based firm will help achieve this objective," he said.
Christian Cooke, chairman of the broadband lobby group Ireland Offline, welcomed the news but he emphasised that it would be vital that community groups in smaller towns be able establish links on to the nearest MAN cost effectively. "To use an analogy, a community network is like a housing estate that needs to connect to the national road infrastructure. The MANs were intended to be the slip roads. Until and unless they become accessible in a manner that is reasonable for a community network, it's as if the minister expects these group schemes to connect directly to the motorways."
It is understood that a total of 120 jobs will be created for the management of the new networks. Some 65 of these jobs will be created directly in Limerick City, while a further 60 indirect jobs will follow as the networks are being rolled out.
At the launch, Dermot Ahern TD also announced the next phase of the regional broadband programme. An additional 41 towns will be added to the networks over the course of 2005. The full list is: Athenry, Ballinasloe, Ballybofey, Bantry, Blarney, Bundoran, Carrigaline, Castleblaney, Castleisland, Castlerea, Claremorris, Clifden, Clones, Cobh, Cahir, Dingle, Donabate, Dunshaughlin, Enniskerry, Furbo, Kenmare, Kilcoole, Kildare, Kinsale, Knock, Longford, Maynooth, Midleton, Mitchelstown, Mountmellick, Nenagh, Newbridge, Rathangan, Ratoath, Sallins, Skerries, Skibereen, Sligo, Tramore, Trim and Youghal.
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Q: OpenCL - Multiple GPU Buffer Synchronization I have an OpenCL kernel that calculates total force on a particle exerted by other particles in the system, and then another one that integrates the particle position/velocity. I would like to parallelize these kernels across multiple GPUs, basically assigning some amount of particles to each GPU. However, I have to run this kernel multiple times, and the result from each GPU is used on every other. Let me explain that a little further:
Say you have particle 0 on GPU 0, and particle 1 on GPU 1. The force on particle 0 is changed, as is the force on particle 1, and then their positions and velocities are changed accordingly by the integrator. Then, these new positions need to be placed on each GPU (both GPUs need to know where both particle 0 and particle 1 are) and these new positions are used to calculate the forces on each particle in the next step, which is used by the integrator, whose results are used to calculate forces, etc, etc. Essentially, all the buffers need to contain the same information by the time the force calculations roll around.
So, the question is: What is the best way to synchronize buffers across GPUs, given that each GPU has a different buffer? They cannot have a single shared buffer if I want to keep parallelism, as per my last question (though, if there is a way to create a shared buffer and still keep multiple GPUs, I'm all for that). I suspect that copying the results each step will cause more slowdown than it's worth to parallelize the algorithm across GPUs.
I did find this thread, but the answer was not very definitive and applied only to a single buffer across all GPUs. I would like to know, specifically, for Nvidia GPUs (more specifically, the Tesla M2090).
EDIT: Actually, as per this thread on the Khronos forums, a representative from the OpenCL working group says that a single buffer on a shared context does indeed get spread across multiple GPUs, with each one making sure that it has the latest info in memory. However, I'm not seeing that behavior on Nvidia GPUs; when I use watch -n .5 nvidia-smi while my program is running in the background, I see one GPU's memory usage go up for a while, and then go down while another GPU's memory usage goes up. Is there anyone out there that can point me in the right direction with this? Maybe it's just their implementation?

A: It sounds like you are having implementation trouble.
There's a great presentation from SIGGRAPH that shows a few different ways to utilize multiple GPUs with shared memory. The slides are here.
I imagine that, in your current setup, you have a single context containing multiple devices with multiple command queues. This is probably the right way to go, for what you're doing.
Appendix A of the OpenCL 1.2 specification says that:

OpenCL memory objects, [...] are created using a context and can be shared across multiple command-queues created using the same context.

Further:

The application needs to implement appropriate synchronization across threads on the host processor to ensure that the changes to the state of a shared object [...] happen in the correct order [...] when multiple command-queues in multiple threads are making changes to the state of a shared object.

So it would seem to me that your kernel that calculates particle position and velocity needs to depend on your kernel that calculates the inter-particle forces. It sounds like you already know that.
To put things more in terms of your question:

What is the best way to synchronize buffers across GPUs, given that each GPU has a different buffer?

... I think the answer is "don't have the buffers be separate." Use the same cl_mem object between two devices by having that cl_mem object come from the same context.
As for where the data actually lives... as you pointed out, that's implementation-defined (at least as far as I can tell from the spec). You probably shouldn't worry about where the data is living, and just access the data from both command queues.
I realize this could create some serious performance concerns. Implementations will likely evolve and get better, so if you write your code according to the spec now, it'll probably run better in the future.
Another thing you could try in order to get a better (or a least different) buffer-sharing behavior would be to make the particle data a map.
If it's any help, our setup (a bunch of nodes with dual C2070s) seem to share buffers fairly optimally. Sometimes, the data is kept on only one device, other times it might have the data exist in both places.
All in all, I think the answer here is to do it in the best way the spec provides and hope for the best in terms of implementation.
I hope I was helpful,
Ryan


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today i joined a march against the violence in gaza; now i'm listening to the radio and the news is full of the continuing israeli ground offensive: more devastation, more civilian deaths including a family of seven in a refugee camp, killed by an israeli missile. the people of gaza are trapped with no electricity, no water, and no way to get out of the line of fire.
an ambitious change
you may not have noticed, but new zealand got a new government at the weekend. as in the USA, the people voted for a change - but here the change is a swing to the right. the national party, in opposition for nine years, has swept to power on the promise of a "more ambitious" new zealand, which involves not just tax cuts but "regular tax reductions" - as well as more spending to cushion the expected blow of the recession.
Foreign Identity
I consider myself a pretty avid traveler. I grew up traveling to many different places and my family opted to take our own routes as opposed to big group tours. I'm often embarrassed when I see other Americans in foreign cities looking loudly for the nearest hamburger, sporting t-shirts freshly bought from street vendors of the city we're in, and laughing at different customs. I am proud in many ways of my American identity (although that pride seems to be diminishing in recent years) however I've also always been able to blend in to local customs. (Except in Asia perhaps where I am clearly an outsider, but could be from seen as from the majority of western countries.)
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer's blog
i am not sure what to do with all the photos from tibet that i am receiving. tanks and soldiers on the streets, dead bodies, monks protesting. one that appears to be chinese soldiers preparing to dress as monks: their heads are shaven and they are carrying orange and maroon robes folded neatly in their arms. what is that about? what might they do disguised as monks? in another, a white woman holds a sign that reads "China, would you shoot me too? The world is watching."
australia says sorry
i'm in sydney this week with my grandmother, and this morning we got up early to watch The Apology broadcast live on TV.
voy a cuba
i'm briefly back in wellington, touching base with my community here and planning to type up a pile of notes from the my years of cyberformance experiments to take back to brisbane and wrangle into a coherent thesis.
Economies of exchange for Networked Media Art
Sarah Thelwall has just completed a residency with Proboscis. In her paper Capitalising Creativity recently published by Proboscis she discusses how publicly funded, not-for-profit arts organisations might liberate themselves from their subsistence model of existence. The consequences for arts organisations of the current funding crunch for arts organisations are also discussed in the much quoted Mission Models, Money report,Towards a healthy ecology of arts and culture.
a new era for australia?
it's election day in australia and the opposition labour party has swept in to power, ousting john howard's liberal (conservative) party after 11 years in power. prime minister john howard has even lost his own electorate seat. throughout the campaign the two major parties had been polling neck and neck, but it's already a clear win for labour without all the votes counted.
belonging in the world
the brisbane writers' festival has begun & today i went to two events: first a talk by writer/illustrater shaun tan, and then a talk entitled "girls and islam". shaun tan is best known (in australia) for his illustrations of children's books such as the rabbits (which featured in the 070707 UpStage festival) and his latest release, "The Arrival", a beautiful wordless graphic novel. his talk was really interesting - from his childhood in perth where he was known as "the good drawer" at school, to his development as an artist and a glimpse of his creative process. his work often addresses the theme of belonging, the migrant, finding a place in a strange/alien world.
what's going on in australia
a couple of months ago, the howard government in australia declared a state of emergency in northern territory aboriginal communities, claiming that widespread child abuse required nothing short of massive state intervention - including confiscation of land - to ensure the safety of aboriginal children. this is the same government that, since its election in 1996, has been steadily eroding state assistance to these remote indigenous communities, including passing an amendment to the aboriginal land rights (northern territory) act last year which explicitly states that "The principal objectives are to improve access to Aboriginal land for development, especially mining".
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What I cannot understand are women not wanting to have the dignity God created them to have, from the law, from their families, from their husbands, from their sons. Catholicism gives dignity and status to women. One only has to look at the life of Christ for the beginning of the change. His own Mother, the Theotokos, is our example, guide, queen. Mary, on this day of the ancient feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel, pray for us.
Considering the problems in the States and in some parts of Europe concerning disobedient nuns and sisters (and priests and a few bishops and cardinals regarding civil unions), I thought a little journey into the virtue of obedience, in my perfection series, would be timely. I am grateful for the book Spiritual Theology, by Fr. Jordan Aumann OP,, who quotes a letter from St. Ignatius of Loyola, on obedience. The letter was written on March 16, 1553 in Rome to the brothers and priests in the Jesuits in Portugal. Here are the main points of the letter: obedience is the compendium of all the virtues, notes Fr. Aumann. "He states as the fundamental principle of obedience that one should see Chirst in the superior, without thinking of the superior as an individual person." As I read these, I am thinking of the list of disobedient activities and statements Fr. Z. listed on his blog this week.
Two: obedience may be listed in grades, with the lowest of execution, and the second of the will; " which possesses the intrinsic value of the sacrifice of obedience, so that it is of great merit and it perfects man's free will." Sacrifice of the will is the key idea here. Willfulness is a huge sign of disobedience. One must recall that the recalcitrant nuns and sisters willing took vows. And, willingly, they should follow those vows.
Three: obedience of the intellect is the next level up. Aumann notes "it is possible because the will can control the intellect; it is just because it is reasonable to control one's judgment and to conform one's will to God's; it is necessary for the attainment of perfect subordination, for safeguarding oneself against the illusions of self-love, for preserving one's tranquility in obedience, and for preserving union with God; and it is perfect obedience, because in this grade of obedience a man immolates that which is most excellent, which implies a marvelous victory over self."
This type of obedience is totally missing in some of the main leaders of religious orders in the States, and elsewhere, who have willingly departed from the teaching of the Catholic Church in matters of Faith and Morals, thus not only disobeying the Church, but their ultimate authorities in their orders. If the heads of the orders are in disobedience with regards to the intellect, they have led many others astray.
Four: meekness and humility allow for the growth and maintenance of obedience. Blind obedience includes a docility to superiors, implying an indifference to suggestions and a humility in trusting one's superiors.
Five: Aumann notes that St. Ignatius "says that the prosperity of religious institutes depends on obedience because of the principle of subordination" that applies to religious institutions.
Lastly, Aumann writes that obedience must be supernatural, in motives, underpinned by faith, conformity with the Will of God, love for God, promptness, spontaneity, simplicity, magnanimity, perseverance and to me, the most important, universality, that is obeying in all things great or small.
The supernatural element is key, as the sister or nun must see God in the superior, always believing because of her vows, that God is indeed working in and with that superior. One does not see the person, but God.
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.


Twickenham, UK (BBN) – The 123rd edition of the Six Nations, which begins on Saturday, is set to be watched by the highest average attendance per match of any tournament in world sport.
Over the next seven weeks the northern hemisphere showpiece, which features England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy, will see the cream of European rugby meet across five rounds, culminating in the final set of games on 18 March, reports BBC.
Scotland play Ireland in the tournament's opening match in Edinburgh at 14:25 GMT, before defending champions England host France at Twickenham at 16:50 GMT, while Wales play Italy at 14:00 on Sunday in Rome.
Last year's tournament attracted an average 72,000 fans a game, leading sport's global standings above American football's NFL in second and the Fifa World Cup in third – according to statistics published by European football body Uefa.
More than a million people in total watched last season's 15 matches, with 81,916 fans packing in to see England beat Wales 25-21 at Twickenham in the best-attended game.
England secured the 2016 title with a perfect record of five wins from their five games, earning them the Grand Slam.
They are the bookies' favourites to win again but an Ireland team that claimed a famous win over world champions New Zealand in Chicago in November are serious contenders to regain the title they won in 2014 and 2015.
Wales are without head coach Warren Gatland – who has stepped away from his role for a year to coach the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in the summer – but interim replacement Rob Howley leads a team that includes the likes of barnstorming wing George North.
Scotland come into the tournament buoyed by the domestic success of a Glasgow Warriors side currently fourth in the Pro12 and into the last eight of the top-tier European Champions Cup.
France and Italy are both under relatively new leadership, with Guy Noves and Conor O'Shea taking over in January and June 2016 respectively, but the former showed signs of their old form in an improved showing in the autumn Tests, while O'Shea was the mastermind behind Harlequins' 2012 Premiership title.
One of the key factors in deciding the destination of the title may be the strength in depth of each squad.
High-profile stars such as Ireland's Johnny Sexton, Wales' Taulupe Faletau and England's Billy Vunipola will miss the start of the tournament through injury, and the physicality of the modern game means more are sure to join them on the sidelines.
For the first time bonus points will be on offer.
In addition to the four points to be gained for a win, teams can pick up a further point for scoring four or more tries or by losing by seven points or less.
Another change is that referees have been told to pay extra attention to high tackles, with more severe penalties to be handed down to players who make contact with an opponent's head, whether accidentally or recklessly.
While the chance to clinch this season's title will spur on supporters, the tournament will also be a chance to renew age-old rivalries and add another chapter the tournament's long history of famous results.
And in a competition that saw England captain Bill Beaumont carried shoulder-high from the pitch in 1980, David Sole's slow walk onto the Murrayfield turf in 1990, Scott Gibbs carving through the England defence at Wembley in 1999 or a fresh-faced Brian O'Driscoll's hat-trick against France in 2000, there is every prospect of new heroes being made.


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The banner headlines that accompanied the introduction of the Enterprise Income Tax Law on January 1 were all about the equalization of income tax rates imposed on foreign and domestic companies in China. The tax authorities' new remit to target offshore firms saw little of the limelight.
But for those familiar with the legally flexible – and tax-free – world of offshore special purpose vehicles (SPVs), which have facilitated capital flows in and out of China, this was big news.
"This is going to cause a little bit of discomfort for some organizations," said Florence Yip, a tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Hong Kong.
China-based companies pay tax on their worldwide income while firms based overseas are liable only for certain kinds of income connected to their local operations. As of January 1, a foreign enterprise that is under "effective management" in China – that is, it makes key business decisions here – is bracketed with domestic enterprises and subject to tax on its worldwide income.
Havens under fire
If a company based overseas is being tapped in its home country for more than the rate specified in the Enterprise Income Tax Law, it has little to fear from China's tax authorities. For a firm run from China that is incorporated in a tax haven, though, there is cause for concern.
In theory, any foreign firm – regardless of the presence of domestic shareholders – that manages its operations from China could now be drawn into the local tax web. This may be of particular concern to China-focused private equity funds registered in the Caymans but actively managed in China.
"It may be a Cayman fund, but the research is arguably carried out in China, many staff are based in China and certain decisions are made in China. The Chinese tax bureau might take the view that the Cayman fund is subject to China tax," said Rocky Lee, who heads DLA Piper's Asia venture and private equity practice.
Even if a private equity fund avoids classification as a Chinese tax-resident enterprise, it still isn't in the clear. Under the new law, a withholding tax of 10% can be levied on dividends paid to non-resident enterprises if this money comes from a China tax resident.
However, any discussion of this issue is littered with "mights" and "maybes" because the legislation is untested and, in a number of areas, still poorly defined.
"There is still a lot of uncertainty in terms of how the enterprises would be treated by the State Administration for Taxation," said John Gu, China tax principal at KPMG in Hong Kong. "So far, the law is still very much a principal-based law and the guidelines are insufficient."
The implementation rules that accompany the new law define "effective management" in very broad terms, encompassing duties relating to property, human resources and financial recordkeeping in addition to the business development and senior management functions. It's unclear how closely authorities will stick to the letter of the law.
As Yingli Green Energy, a Chinese solar power firm incorporated in the Caymans and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, said in its 2007 annual report, "Although substantially all of our operational management is based in the PRC, it is unclear whether the PRC tax authorities would require (or permit) us to be treated as a PRC resident enterprise."
To a large extent, enforcement of the law depends on company directors being honest. If a Chinese national establishes an offshore company, he must report it as an offshore interest and repatriate any profit within a certain time period so it can be taxed. In most cases, getting people to report their interests is not a problem: Round-trip investments by offshore companies into associated WFOEs are not legitimate unless first approved by the relevant government bureau.
Artful dodgers
But anyone who tries to dodge taxes by working around these rules is likely to hide their efforts beneath a mound of paperwork. For example, an offshore holding company may be registered under a different name, making it harder for the authorities to establish a link between the individual and his assets.
"We need to distinguish between the small number of people who evade tax and the large number of people who carry out their business in accordance with the law," said Yip of PwC.
She queries whether pursuing a few individuals is an efficient deployment of government resources, given that China's tax authorities are also responsible for collecting tax returns from every company in the country. The practical issues raised by the new law will probably be addressed as the legislation evolves.
Whatever comes to pass, DLA Piper's Lee does not believe the changes will dissuade Chinese firms from going offshore or dissuade foreigners from doing business here. Often, the primary goal of going offshore may not be tax avoidance, but seeking an overseas listing. So, the real business considerations are unlikely to change. Foreign funds, meanwhile, simply have to be more careful as to where decisions are made.
"Many funds have protocols to ensure that decision-making does not take place in China," said Lee. "They may have a telephone conference and then the decisions are officially executed in the US and sent back to China."
However, it all comes down to the nature of their company's business: If it is just holding an asset, then board meetings in tax havens may be feasible; if its operations are more substantial, then they may struggle to avoid domestic liability.
In the long-run, Chinese nationals that don't pay domestic tax on their offshore corporate income may just have to change their ways. The only other option is to stop being a Chinese national.
"A lot of people are trying to get new passports," said a Shanghai-based venture capitalist who asked not to be named.
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Rosalie est un album studio enregistré par Carlos, sorti en 1978.

Liste des pistes
 Eso es el amor (ah! Lâchez-moi !)
 Savez-vous comment danser?
 Papa mambo
 Rosalie
 Y'a plus de papas, y'a plus de mamans

Autour de l'album
Devenu ambassadeur de la marque de boissons fruitées Oasis, Carlos reprendra sa chanson Rosalie pour des publicités télévisées en détournant les paroles initiales.

La chanson Rosalie est écrite et composée par Georges Plonquitte et reprise par Carlos.

Articles connexes
 Liste des chansons enregistrées par Carlos

Notes, sources et références

Album musical sorti en 1978
Album publié par EMI Group
Album de Carlos

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The collection "The Coinage of the Greek Nation" is a rare collectors item in 925 silver, in a limited number of personalized and numbered series.
In accordance with the new monetary system, introduced into Modern Greece by the monarchy, a silver drachma was circulated to replace the Phoenix. It was divided into 100 equal parts, called "lepta", as laid down by the Regency Decree of 8th/20th February 1833 "on the organization of the monetary system". At the same time the coinage that had circulated under Capodistrias was withdrawn. The silver drachma consisted of 9 parts pure silver to 1 part copper (thus having a purity of 900°); it contained 4.029 grammes of silver and 0.448 grammes of copper, with a total weight of 4.477 grammes and a diameter of 23.2 mm. Its value was fixed at the equivalent of 0.895 of one gold franc. It was minted in Munich in 1,125,000 copies.
The coat-of-arms of the State and, below, the value of the coin and the year of its minting.
The head of King Othon, looking to the right, with the inscription ΟΘΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ (Othon King of Greece).
The item comes with a personalized guarantee of the quality of the coin.